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A treatise on teaching or education.
adjective
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Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
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didactic poetry
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Excessively moralizing.
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Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
Examples of didactic in a Sentence
James was a very didactic person; he really loved teaching.
Her "novels for children" are certainly didactic, and they are certainly moral.
It was certainly didactic teaching.
The didactic purpose of "War of the Worlds" is to demonstrate that mankind is a lesser breed.
There can be other books with more idioms, but they are not didactic.
There was a didactic presentation; followed by group discussion.
As a didactic and elegiac poet Stephen Kohari is much esteemed.
The composition of didactic, lyrical and elegiac poetry also was the accomplishment and pastime of an educated dilettante class, the only extant specimens of any interest being some of the Silvae of Statius.
It was didactic in style and delivered in a clinical environment.
Origen was pre-eminently a teacher, and the didactic side of preaching is thus more conspicuous in his work.
Several poems of a didactic character are also ascribed to him.
He made this, in 1871, the first volume of his collected lectures and essays, the more popular and didactic form of his new Utopia of human life.
The satire of Ennius seems to have resembled the more artistic satire of Horace in its record of personal experiences, in the occasional introduction of dialogue, in the use made of fables with a moral application, and in the didactic office which it assumed.
Carlyle's conversational powers were extraordinary; though, as he won greater recognition as a prophet, he indulged too freely in didactic monologue.
St John's purpose in introducing it is not historical but didactic. It is made the occasion of instruction as to the heavenly food, the flesh and blood of Him who came down from heaven.
An ambitious didactic composition in hexameters, entitled Urania, embodying the astronomical science of the age, and adorning this high theme with brilliant mythological episodes, won the admiration of Italy.
The popularity of the parable as a form of didactic teaching finds many examples in the Rabbinical writings, and some have noteworthy parallels in the New testament.
In 1878 he succeeded his father as professor of didactic theology at the Princeton seminary.
That this didactic poem must have been written late in the nation's history, and not at its very beginning, is evident from v.
From the 1760s or 1770s onwards, moral tales and heavily didactic texts had exerted an almost hegemonic domination of children's books.
Finally, biblical history is an intentional and reasoned arrangement of material, based upon composite sources, for religious and didactic purposes.
Not less excellent is the didactic poem on orange trees, De hortis Hesperidum.
Psalms and didactic spiritual poems were the main products of Swedish letters in the 16th century.
The king gave him a pension and rooms in the palace, admitting him on intimate terms. He was not equal to Kellgren in general poetical ability, but he is great in didactic and satiric writing.
The Gyro paedia is a didactic romance, written with a view to Greek institutions and rarely preserving genuine information on the Persian Empire.
This rich genius gave also the first impulse to romantic, didactic and mystic poetry; and even his own age produced powerful co-operators in these three most conspicuous departments of Persian literature.
By the side of much that seems trivial, and even nonmoral - for the patriarchs themselves are not saints - it is noteworthy how frequently the narratives are didactic. The characteristic sense of collective responsibility, which appears more incidentally in xx.
This credential is available for medical doctors and doctors of osteopathy and requires proof of clinical and didactic training as well as three years of practice in a clinical setting.
It follows that Aristotle, from early manhood, not only wrote dialogues and didactic works, surviving only in fragments, but also began some of the philosophical works which are still parts of his extant writings.
As to the fragments, we are safe in saying that the early dialogues in the manner of Plato were written under the influence of Plato, and that the subsequent didactic writings connected with Alexander were written more under the influence of Philip and Alexander.
We will examine these works briefly, grouping them into narrative, didactic, hagiographic, lyric, satiric and dramatic literature.
The Hebrew word mashal, commonly rendered " proverb," is a general term for didactic and elegiac poetry (as distinguished from the descriptive and the liturgical),.
Fruitful as the 6th and 7th centuries of the Hegira were in panegyrics, they attained an equally high standard in didactic and mystic poetry.
The year of Ab Saids death is most likely that of the first great didactic mathnawi, the Rshan.
But Pope excelled, not only in the voluptuous and in the didactic epistle, but in that of compliment as well, and there is no more graceful example of this in literature than is afforded by the letter about the poems of Parnell addressed, in 1721, to Robert, earl of Oxford.
Ennius called his didactic poem on natural philosophy Epicharmus after the comic poet.
This didactic view of history was a prevalent one in antiquity, and it was confirmed no doubt by those rhetorical studies which in Rome as in Greece formed the chief part of education, and which taught men to look on history as little more than a storehouse of illustrations and themes for declamation.
From 1864 to 1877 he was professor of didactic and polemical theology in the Allegheny Theological seminary at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, where he was also from 1866 to 1877 pastor of the North Church (Presbyterian).
The book of laws (Vendidad) is characterized by an arid didactic tone; only here and there the legislator clothes his dicta in the guise of graceful dialogues and tales, or of poetic descriptions and similitudes; and then the book of laws is transformed into a didactic poem.
This consists of brief didactic chapters, or more properly paragraphs, of practical direction or critical remark on all the branches and conditions of a painter's practice.
His main work, the Geschichte des Materialismus, which is brilliantly written, with wide scientific knowledge and more sympathy with English thought than is usual in Germany, is rather a didactic exposition of principles than a history in the proper sense.
Perhaps the most favourable specimen of his style is his didactic novel entitled Judas der Erzschelm (4 vols., Salzburg, 1686-1695).
Vacarescu, there are -odes, hymns, patriotic poems, ballads, lyrical and didactic poems, some of them among the most beautiful in the language.
Balcescu had undertaken the edition of the ancient Walachian chronicles, and had found in them admirable prose writers, that he ventured on a continuous history (1851-52) of the Rumanians under Michael the Brave, written not as a didactic treatise but as a poem in prose - full of colour and of energy.
There are lapses and flaws, and Natty is made to say things which only Cooper, in his most verbosely didactic vein, could have uttered.
Of higher literary value is the didactic and satirical Buch von der Tugend und Weisheit (1550), a collection of forty-nine fables in which Alberus embodies his views on the relations of Church and State.
How were you able to create believable scenarios without becoming too didactic?
By this means we hope to counteract the common criticism that museum curators interpret objects in a purely didactic way for a passive public.
His preaching became earnest, didactic, experimental, and pastoral.
It was in reality sins and vices, however, rather than follies that came under his censure, and this didactic temper was reflected in Barclay.